CUT THE CRAP! Your Month in Review from the most "progressive" administration ever.

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392. The good cop ship may have sailed, if it ever existed.

One of the people Clinton says he admired most, who influenced him most, was Carroll Quigley, right up there with JFK.

Quigley thought that the least possible change from one administration to the other was the best thing for financial markets. And we all know that what's good for the financial markets is good for America, especially since we sent jobs to other countries and making money in the stock market became the be all and end all.

But, I am mulling over whether the differences that once seemed so great were mostly to throw us a bone now and then so we would not revolt, especially back in the early 1930s, when the memory of the Russian Revolution was fresh in the minds of government and the rest of the wealthy.

After 911, Homeland Security NSA and the general ability to do just about anything in the name of trying to prevent a terrorist attack, a revolution may seem like less of a threat to the 1%.

I am not settled on this yet, but I am turning it over in my mind.